Software Engineer, New Grad

🌍 Remote, USA 🚀 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

Job Description

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, enabling users to buy, sell, and discover various products. The role involves building new features, implementing growth strategies, and maintaining a high-quality marketplace experience.

Responsibilities

Building new features for users in our live-streams
Implementing growth tactics and strategies to scale our buyer and seller flows
Building systems at scale that help us deliver a high trust marketplace experience
Writing product or system development code
Designing, implementing, and operating our most critical and scalable services
Carefully evaluating the technical tradeoffs of every decision
Supporting features at every phase, from design through implementation and launch
Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues, network, or service operations and quality

Skills

Graduating with a CS or Software Engineering degree in Dec 2025 or by Summer 2026
Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
Willing to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users
Capable of building scalable systems
Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast
Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly
Open to relocation to Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle

Benefits

Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
Work From Home Support
Home office setup allowance
Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
Care benefits
Monthly allowance for wellness
Annual allowance towards Childcare
Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
Parental Leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

Company Overview

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.whatnot.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Whatnot has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 34 in 2025, 20 in 2024, 18 in 2023, 10 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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